Chapter 16: Food Distribution
The small jade containing aura was tied to Lin Qiudao's forearm with a rope and covered with long sleeves, although he didn't know the source and structure of the jade, as long as he could absorb the aura from it, it was enough.
Wisps of white-gold soft aura flowed from his arm and flowed through his mind, although the speed was extremely slow, but the process made Lin Qiudao's whole body involuntarily climb to the peak.
The observation power of binocular eyes has been improved to a new level, and the voice of every student on the other end can be clearly heard at a distance of 100 meters, and the ability of the brain to operate and think is unprecedentedly easy.
"Just this little aura can do this. Lin Qiudao stretched out his hand and pressed the hard rock wall, and the center of a rock was deeply submerged by five fingers, and then forcibly pulled out a part of the stone.
Is it easy to do this kind of thing with bare hands, maybe that kind of unthinkable thing can also be done......
Lin Qiudao cleaned up the remaining stone chips in his fingers, and looked at the rock wall that was forcibly dug out of a piece of distraction.
If you punch with all your might, you can probably punch a live person through the abdomen?
Lin Qiudao didn't want to experiment, and sincerely hoped that these old classmates wouldn't force themselves to experiment.
Stopped, Lin Qiudao looked at the front of him, divided into two waves of classmates on the left and right, and the original dead silence was gone, replaced by a sabre-rattling, gunpowder-filled atmosphere.
This made him a little stunned, he had only been away for less than half an hour, what had happened during this period? He glanced at it carefully, and saw the figures of Chen Jiangwei and Xia Mengyue in the group of people on his right hand.
"What's going on?" Lin Qiudao walked forward quickly, not choosing to stand in line for the first time, but choosing to stand in a relatively ambiguous position between the two waves of people.
"Lin Qiudao, where have you been, and you are still acting on your own at this time?" The leader of the crowd on the left walked out and asked with a frown after seeing Lin Qiudao.
Despite the dark environment, Lin Qiudao recognized at a glance that the guy questioning him was Du Yan, he ignored Du Yan, and when he saw that everyone's eyes were on him, he felt that this was just a little bit of effort for him to announce the bad news next.
"I have bad news for everyone. Lin Qiudao glanced at the audience and gradually raised his voice and said, "In the next few days of being trapped, we will face the crisis of water cuts. ”
As soon as this remark came out, it caused an uproar.
"How is it possible, is there no canal in this cave? There are many springs in the mountain above, and there is the title of hot spring town here, so how can there be no water in the cave?" said someone who had checked the geographical information of the mountain before traveling.
"That's right, isn't there a prayer pool here......" Xia Mengyue was also frightened by Lin Qiudao's words, and couldn't help but say something.
Lin Qiudao glanced at Xia Mengyue and shook his head and said: "Originally, there was a half-meter-deep pool inside, but because all the cracks that appeared in the previous earthquake seeped into the underground river, the rock formation is very hard and cannot extract water sources, of course, if you just rely on the water droplets dripping from the cracks, you can probably feed about one or two people." ”
Everyone was silent, what were those few drops of water in front of twenty or thirty people?
Now is not the time to be selfish, food and water resources are scarce resources, if you can trust me, you can hand them over to me for safekeeping. Du Yan stood up and pointed at Chen Jiangwei and Xia Mengyue in the crowd and said sharply.
Lin Qiudao suddenly realized what was going on, he had already expected this situation, but he didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
"Okay, Xia Mengyue, give me the bag. Lin Qiudao signaled to Chen Jiangwei, Chen Jiangwei glared at Du Yan to open up a path for Xia Mengyue, who was carrying a bag, Xia Mengyue obediently walked to Lin Qiudao, took off the backpack and handed it to him.
Everyone looked at the bulging backpack and their eyes turned green, if it weren't for Chen Jiangwei standing on the side, it was estimated that Xia Mengyue would have been snatched by "well-wishers" to keep the backpack.
Lin Qiudao took the bag and threw it on the ground, spilling compressed biscuits, bottled water, and high-calorie chocolates and candies on the ground, everyone staring at the food like a torch.
"This food should be properly distributed, otherwise we will starve to death sooner or later. Du Yan said righteously, and bent down to pick up the backpack, just when his hand was about to touch the strap of the backpack, a shoe suddenly stepped on Du Yan's hand on the ground.
"That's not supposed to be your distribution either. ”
Stepping on Du Yan's hand so that he couldn't move, Lin Qiudao looked at Du Yan who was screaming in pain on the ground and said lightly.
"Hey, Lin Qiudao, what are you doing, quickly lift your ......" Several of Du Yan's younger brothers stepped forward to organize Lin Qiudao's atrocities, but before they could take a few steps, they were glared back by Chen Jiangwei's terrifying eyes.
Lin Qiudao stepped on Du Yan's hand and squatted down, calmly looked at Du Yan, who was sweating profusely, and said: "Squad Leader Du, I have no opinion on the order, I have no opinion on the collective interests being greater than the individual interests, I will distribute these foods to everyone, but it will only pass through my hands, I will arrange everyone's rations reasonably, do you have any opinions?"
In the end, he shook out the dagger from his sleeve and plunged it down, and between Du Yan's screams, the dagger was inserted from Du Yan's fingers into the dirt underground, and the middle finger of that hand was cut off by a fraction of a second.
There was silence.
The right to speak seemed to have found a home all of a sudden, Lin Qiudao didn't speak, no one dared to touch the food when it fell on the ground, and it seemed that he would be remembered even if he even glanced at it, so he had to look away, as if it was not food but something else terrifying on the ground.
Lin Qiudao's mood was stable from beginning to end, no one could feel anger or anger from him, and when he cast his eyes on him, he could only see calm, and the emotions around him were as light as boiled water.
After that, Lin Qiudao lifted his right foot, Du Yan withdrew his hand and sat back on the ground, three or four younger brothers rushed up to help him, looking at the shoe print on his right hand Du Yan's face was extremely ugly, but he didn't dare to say anything at all. When Lin Qiudao inserted the dagger from between his fingers, he really felt the indifference of the guy in front of him, as if the dagger really ran through the back of his hand, he would ignore it lightly.
So he chose to forbear, it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, but to say that it is unpleasant is to be afraid of shrinking eggs, but people with a proud personality will always make reasonable excuses for their failures and disgrace, right?
Lin Qiudao saw that Du Yan was no longer making trouble, and he also let this old classmate go, he bent down and poured out all the food in his backpack, looked at everyone and said: "If you can trust me, throw all the food here, I will make the corresponding distribution, the woman's injury number is given priority, and the young and strong are given priority." ”
The same words, from the mouths of different people, the effect is completely different, the people on the right hand side who completely resisted Du Yan's handover system before silently threw out one backpack after another, although the food and drinking water contained in it were not much, but they were also extremely considerable.
"......" Lin Qiudao glanced at the crowd on Du Yan's side, and after a little silence, someone first threw a piece of chocolate in the food pile in front of Lin Qiudao, and then handed it in before and after, until the food was piled up into a hill.
After the food was gathered, Lin Qiudao counted the number of people, a total of twenty-three, eight lightly injured, four seriously injured, and the remaining eleven healthy people, seven men and four women.
"During this period of being trapped, two meals were held every day, everyone came to line up to receive food, supervised by me and Du Yan, Chen Jiangwei and Xia Mengyue distributed, the amount distributed each time was not too much, I hope you are mentally prepared. If, after three days, there is no one to help, then I need ten laborers to try to dig a way out, and the laborers' rations will be two or three times more than the rest of the idlers. In the first three days, the rations of the sick number were determined according to the condition of the injury, followed by the idlers, etc., you all have no opinion, right?"
After the arrangement, the most surprising thing was that Lin Qiudao actually distributed Du Yan to the list of supervising the distribution of food, which can be said to give everyone the impression of "fairness" that Lin Qiudao and Du Yan restrict.
"Why don't you start digging now?" someone asked, raising his hand.
Lin Qiudao glanced at him and shook his head and said: "I'm afraid of another landslide, the geology here has changed dramatically after the earthquake, and there are cracks everywhere, I can't guarantee that artificial mining without accurate instrument analysis will not lead to a secondary landslide and kill everyone." We can save our food for a maximum of five days, and three days is the bottom line of waiting for rescue, after which if no one finds us, we can only try our luck. ”
The explanation was very reasonable, everyone acquiesced to Lin Qiudao's arrangement, and the time was six o'clock in the morning, and Lin Qiudao also beckoned to start the first food distribution of the day.
Chen Jiangwei and Xia Mengyue stood in front of the food pile, and the people who received the food lined up in two rows, with Lin Qiudao and Du Yan supervising the amount of food for each person on both sides.
"Just a compressed biscuit, a piece of fruit candy and a glass of water...... "Someone muttered with a confused face after receiving their share of the food.
When Lin Qiudao heard this, he walked to his side, took his water cup and threw the compressed biscuits into it, and then soaked it into a big pile of paste and handed it back to the stunned man.
"These are high-calorie military compressed biscuits, a biscuit soaked in water is enough to satisfy the stomach, fruit candy must be eaten, there is a high-calorie and vitamin effect. Lin Qiudao raised his voice and said to everyone.
After the first food distribution was completed in about ten minutes, Xia Mengyue and Chen Jiangwei, who were in charge of distributing the food, did not have half a compressed biscuit and a piece of fruit candy, and the others who ate their food quota with envy drooled.
Compressed biscuits, which used to be hard to swallow, are now a rare delicacy, and it's a joke.
walked up to Ye Tao, the sports committee, put a piece of fruit candy and half a bottle of mineral water in his hand, and motioned to the weak Han Xi who was half-lying on the ground in the other party's stunned expression.
"Aren't you going to eat it?" Ye Tao asked with a pursed dry lip.
Lin Qiudao glanced at him, unscrewed the mineral water, took a sip and handed it to him: "It's enough to have biscuits, let's make up for my sister-in-law, although compressed biscuits are not nutritious, it's better than nothing." ”
"Thank you. Ye Tao didn't refuse, and after taking it, he lowered his head and fed it to Han Xi in small sips.
Lin Qiudao silently got up and returned to Chen Jiangwei and Xia Mengyue, Chen Jiangwei leaned against the wall and frowned and nibbled on compressed biscuits, while Xia Mengyue sat on the ground reservedly and ate the biscuits soaked in water.
"What's the matter, the group leader choked on eating coarse grains for the first time?" Lin Qiudao glanced at Chen Jiangwei, and hammered the other party's chest with his hand, and a loud cough suddenly sounded.
"Lao Tzu was thrown into the barracks, and the insects and water were all eaten, and the biscuits were already counted," Chen Jiangwei rolled his eyes, drank the mineral water in his hand, and crumpled the empty bottle into a ball and threw it on the ground.
"It's good to eat well, by the way, please leave it to you, I'll go sleep for a while, you can deal with the trivial things, it's really a big thing that can't control the situation, let Xia Mengyue wake me up." Lin Qiudao said.
"Are you afraid of people making noise when you sleep, so delicate? Forget it, you can find a random place to lie down, and come to me when you wake up." Chen Jiangwei waved his hand and said.
When Lin Qiudao turned around and was about to walk towards the depths of the cave, he suddenly thought of something and squatted in front of Xia Mengyue, looked at the other party with a blank face, shook his sleeve, and stuffed the military dagger into her hand.
"Save it for self-defense. ”
With that, he stood up, went into the depths of the dark cavern, and found a relatively spacious and flat place at random, and lay down with an empty wrap as a pillow.
Closing his eyes, Lin Qiudao's heart gradually began to recall the dark world that he found after the shackles in his mind were accidentally opened, and it was a place where he could experiment with aura control as he wanted.
The last time I tried to open the shackles of my right arm, I failed to cause that kind of terrifying explosion, and it stands to reason that my right arm should explode directly to the cripple, but in the dark world, it is like a dream, and if I can go back there, maybe I can try to open the shackles of my right arm again.
It's just that when the shackles are opened in the mind, he becomes superhuman-like, so what will happen if the shackles on his right arm are fully opened? Single-handedly dig a cave of more than 150 meters to escape?
Lin Qiudao didn't know, but there was an intuition in the dark that told him that the "shackles" were extremely important things, and he had to try to open him no matter what, and this time the cave was trapped maybe it was a catalyst for him to speed up to open the shackles and peel off the fog in front of the gate of the new world.
Thinking wildly, Lin Qiudao fell into a deep sleep, and the jade in his cuffs continued to emit a constant glimmer of light in the darkness.
In the dark, everything is invisible and untouchable.
Lin Qiudao opened his eyes and saw a darkness up and down, left and right, and his feet were naturally suspended as if he was stepping on the void.
It's really here. He thought.
At this time, a white light suddenly lit up in the corner of his eye, which was extremely dazzling in the dark, so he looked down and saw the jade on his arm, where he could see with the naked eye a wisp of silk-like aura climbing from his arm until it merged into his brain.
"Is the shackles of the right hand ......?"
In the dark, Lin Qiudao pondered, and then began to slowly guide the aura in his mind towards his right hand.